Utensil-cleaner.



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UTENSL CLEANER.

APPLXGATION FILED SEPT,2,190G.

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To allwwm ti may @ennemi Be it known that I, Ann SrLvnncLAnn, a citizenof the United St'ates, residing at Cincinnati, in the county State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful- Im rovements inUtensil-Clean ers, ofwhich t e following is a specification. Myinvention relates to washing apparatus and has for its object theprovision of a continuously operating device for cleaning forks orsimilar utensils that must be used without removal from the servingtable in public eatin places, and Where it is customa for t e patrons toserve themselves with t e use of such utensils. y

My invention 'consists in a vessel provided at its bottom with an outletand at its top with an opening for the insertion of utensils, and aninlet pipe encompassing the opening whereby waterv may' be forciblyapplied to the utensils during'their insertion into the-vessel.

My invention also consists in `tlie parts and in the details ofconstruction and arrangement of parts as will hereinafter .be more fullydescribed and claimed.A

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a plan view Aof a device embodying myinvention. Fig.

- 2 is avertical section on a line corresponding to Vthe line .az-a: ofFig. 1, illustrating the` manner of use of my invention. Fig. 3 is aplartial vertical section illustrating a modi! cation. l

Constructed as illustrated,l my invention comprises 'a lvessel 1 ofinverted rustoconical formation, open at its top 2` and closed at itsbottom 3 excepting for an outlet 4 which comprises a -waste pipe 5screwed into an opening in the. bottom 3 provided at its free-end withthreads r6 to which may be attached any suitable well known waste ipeconstruction. Interiorly of thev vessel,

immediately below the edge of the top 2 and following it closely, -isthe inlet pipe 7, which, consequently to its'conforming to the upperpart of the vessel v1, is of annular formation with its ends 8 and 9approaching each other. These ends 8 and 9 of the inlet pipe 7 are`secured into the two oi positely extending branchesof a tee shapeconnection 10 which has its" third branch bent downwardly, in adirection approaching that of the adjacent side of the vessel 1, ltoreceive the up'er end of a supply pipe 11, which exten s down along theside of the vessel 1 and, closelyl approaching the direcof Hamilton andlbent so that it. extends substantie 47 in such non therese, s securedthereto by meansof a clip 12 taking over the supplypi'pe 1l yandattached to the vessel 1 at one side of the pipe 11` by means of shortscrews. 13. linmediately below the clip 12, the piple' 11 is yvertically, and at its end it may be provided with a suitable regulatingcock 14, past which it is connected to a pipe 15 which may lead from asuitable source supplying water under pressure. The side of t e vesselv1 lis provided with a recess 16, in its top edge, to allow the teeshaped connection 10'to lie entirely below the upper edge `of the.Vessel and form a support for the inlet pipe osition.

lt is at 51e open top of the vessel that the forks or other utensilslare inserted. This in# let pipe 7, encompassing 4tineopenin for theinsertion of the utensils, is 'prevde with a series of perforations17'so psitioned inthe' pipe that they o en in a direction somewhatinclined below t e horizontal.. Then, whenl water undeif rassure isintrodced into the inlet pipe 7 t ough tlie supply pipe 1'1 and teeshaped connection 10, a )et of water be projected from each of theperforations 17 in the inletpipe 7 radially-inward and in adownwardlyinclined direction, aiiiording a:

'striking the utensil, will 'aici'ently 'wash therefrom any articleswhich adhere thereto as a result of t ie'use of the utensil, thlsoperation being rovided without es ecial attention from t e personinserting t e utensil into the vessel.

At some distance above 4the bottom 3 of; the vessel 1, lu s 18 -aeprovided on the m-' terior wall of t e vessel, preferably formedintegral therewith and having their upper surfaces substantiallyhoriz'ontal and in the same plane, these lugs forming supports for adiaphragm 19 which, preferably, 1s of considerable thickness and aords arest for the' lower ends of the forks or other utensils when they areplaced in the vessel.

phragm 19 is provided with a-ninber of pel"-y i'orations 20 and is ofsuchshapeas to coni form closely to the interior of the wall of thevessel 1 inthe vicinity of the lugs' 18. .The diaphragm thus forms' a supot for the utne This dias-f sil placed in the vessel, an at the same jsupplied and the particles constitutes a strainer to prevent anyparticles from passing into the outlet 4,Whic'li mivht be of such sizeas to clog the outlet.

lit is now the practice to use, for the purpose of receiving forks onlunch coiinters and the hardening oi the substance on the uien sils andnot serving,I to eliiciently remove the substance, owing to the factthat the water is stationary. ilnrtherniore, snc-h ol' the sul)H stancees is .removed l'rorn the utensils is not carried away from the vesselbut remains therein to sour, resulting in a more undesirable conditionthan ii the vessel were not used, this condition prevailing until theutensils cleaned by a s iccic operation, and requiring, in addition, thecleaning of the glass tumbler or other vessel which h been used tocontain the utensils.

`In the use el' my improved cleaning den vice, a constantly :movingvolume ol Water is 'removed from the utensil are as constantly removedfrom the vessel, maintaining heththe, utensils. and the vessel 1n asanitary condition. l

For Aallowingthe ready passage the Water carrying away the particlesiron-l the vessel, I prefer to have the Upper snril'ace of the bottom 3ci' the vessAl l slopil'ictoward the outlet astrai rowing, the slope ofthe n,A pv :i :l is not continuous 'sith the slope oi the interior ofthe wall-1' l Hessel l., it being desirable to have diameter' exteriorlyto eliiord substantial base for the vessel where rests on the uppersurface of the table or counter 2l, which is provided with openings 22and 23 for the passage of the Waste pipe 5 1l, `respecto/ely, which.made to extend parallel to eachother, below the vessel ioi thispurpose. I However, it will he understood that the specific design ofthe vessel l may be varied so that the slope oi' the hottom 3 vmightclosely approai'rh ,the inclination of the sides of the vessel, or mightloe .continuous thcrcvfitli. Such a modified con struction isillustrated in llig. l, ol the draw ing.H

`Asxvvill be noted troni the above descrip-- tion, in connection withthe nia-nner of mounting the supply pipe ll, by nicz'tns ol the clip l2and the manner of incur-ting the da ,D l?? on the 32s', si '.h parts arereadily removable for cleaning and polishing` the vessel. In ordertoavoid corrosion duc to the acids prese1 in the substances oiearuidlfroln the utensil l prefer 'to construct the entire deviceofl solidelnnlinoni. fllhe device may he constructed of any suitable metal andthe-'hottoin 3 of sufiicient and supply pipe.

plated, although it may he stated that the interior surface of thevessel, which is struck repeatedly by the 'utensils when placed in thevessel, is liable to have the plating removed in places allowing thecorrosion to begin in such places. The vessel may be more cheaplyconstructed of eartlicnware or other glazed material.

The supply ipe 1l may be connected with a suitable coc... for su plyingeither hot or cold water to the vesse while the vaste pipe 5 may eitherhe connected permanent-ly to a. closed waste connection or it mayA sim,ly lead into a sink such as is usually provided) in such places as itvvill be desired to use my in* vention. In any case, it will beunderstood that the installation of the device will usually he foundconvenient owing to the fact that sonic kind of Water supply connectionand waste connection is usually present in such places. It v'vill 1oenoted that my improved utensil cleaner, adapted as itis for the cleaningof all kinds of utensils used in?,f serving food and drink, 'withoutespecial attention on the part of the introns or servants, will be foundparticularly ,convenient for use, not only on' lunch counters, but at'bars and soda tonntains, for cleaning the utensils used in servingdrinks at such places, thus constituting a more sanitary device than hasheretofore been used lor such purposes.

lileving fully described niy invention, What l claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is: V

in a utensil cleaner, a vessel of inverted fuiste-conical torniatlonopen at its tcp and provided With an outlet at is bottom com pricing a'vertically extending Waste pipe, an inlet pipe immediately oelozv theedge of the top of the vessel, oi annular formation -with its endsapproaching each other, whereby it follows the edge oli' the topf of thevessel closely, said inlet pipe being provided lwith `a series ofperfoiations' so positioned therein. that when water flows therethroughfrom the inlet pipelit may he torcilily applied to utensil-s :inserted.into the vessel through the open top thereo, a tee shaped connectioninto two branches of 'which the ends ci' the inlet pipe are secured, theedge of the top of the vessel being'provided with a recess to receivethe tee shaped connection, a supply pipe having one end secured into theother branch of the tee shaped connection, extending down along the sideofthe vessel and closely approaching the direction thereof, and a clipsecuring the' supply pipe to the vessel near the bottom thereof, thesupply pipe extending,1 in a vertical direction immediately loeloW theclip, substantially as set forth. y

- ABE SIL'VERGLADE.

fllitnesses ienne N. Rfinsnv, CLARENCE lniznnw.

